That Deja Vu All Over Again Feeling

We're not going to be too pissy about this because it's in the context of a good article about Atlantic Yards--and a headline that turns Bruce Ratner into "Ratzilla"--but we had an odd feeling that we'd seen one of the renderings in the New York Magazine story on the Brooklyn mega-project before. Turns out that we had. As we were doing our nightly Perusing of the Blogs, we came across an item in onNYTurf that pointed out that NY Mag had, well, gotten their inspiration from some work that he had done that was partly based on the work of illustrator John Keegan. OnNYTurf writes:

I have to say, I was a little surprised that there was no mention of onNYTurf anywhere in the article - at least not that I found using a quick text search of the pages. Unspoken internet karma rules would suggest that some credit was in order. Despite criticism from the big media, big media these days actually relies more and more on the blogs for content and content ideas. It not only would be good karma, but it would be good business sense to keep up our enthusiasm by mentioning their blog sources when they get ideas and content from them.

There is much cross pollination going on, and most of it is good. Nonetheless no one wants to find their work clearly coopted without any credit being supplied, especially in a case like this, where it's pretty blatant.